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In salvage operations after wildfire, timber managers need to identify those trees most likely to die. Crown scorch volume and scorch height are commonly used to estimate damage to conifers after fire. Calculated crown scorch volume based on scorch…
Author(s): David L. Peterson
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On August 29, 1985, 73 firefighters were forced into safety zones, where they took refuge in their fire shelters for 1 to 2 hours while a very severe crown fire burned over them. The incident took place on the Butte Fire on the Salmon National…
Author(s): Richard C. Rothermel, Robert W. Mutch
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This is a report summary that includes conclusions, recommendations, and interview from the safety officer on the fire entrapment incident in the Salmon National Forest on July 4, 1985.
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This report analyzed the events leading up to the Lake Mountain Fire entrapment in the Salmon National Forest, Idaho, in 1985.  The authors looked at the fire and activities in terms of the 10 standard fire fighting orders and the 13 shout-out…
Author(s): Dave Dahl, Jim Sweeney, Roy Keck
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This pdf contains two letters and a record of the findings, interviews, and analysis of the use of fire shelters in the Butte Fire in Idaho in 1985.
Author(s): John A. Hafterson
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This report reviews the Long Tom Fire Complex. The review team identified 11 issues and provided alternatives for them to reduce suppression costs, improve suppression efficiency, and minimize resource impacts on future large fires in the Salmon…
Author(s): Jerry Monesmith, Dick Flannelly, Bert Strom, Jim Lawrence
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The objective of thesis was to summarize 80 years of changes associated with several cutting regimes in the Lick Creek Drainage. The Lick Creek Drainage was first selectively cut in 1906, followed by several commercial and precommercial thinnings…
Author(s): James P. Menakis
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Tree population size structures and dispersion patterns were studied using stem maps in three old-growth western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla Sarg.)—western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn.) stands in the Rocky Mountains of northern Idaho and adjacent…
Author(s): David Turner, Eldon H. Franz
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Visitors to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, MT, were asked about their knowledge of fire effects and attitudes toward fire management in wilderness settings. In comparison to a similar 1971 study, visitors were more knowledgeable about fire…
Author(s): Stephen F. McCool, George H. Stankey
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Provides baseline data on secondary plant succession and the development of plant species and life forms for the initial 6 to 15 years following a stand-replacing forest fire in the western redcedar-western hemlock type in northern Idaho.…
Author(s): Peter F. Stickney
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Much of the nearly 7 million acres (2.86 million ha) of aspen in the western United States is seral to conifers. Also, most aspen stands are old, in excess of 60 years. Proper treatment of these aspen forests will retain the aspen and can produce…
Author(s): Norbert V. DeByle
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Relationships for predicting duff reduction, mineral soil exposure, and consumption of downed woody fuel were determined to assist in planning prescribed fires. Independent variables included lower and entire duff moisture contents, loadings of…
Author(s): James K. Brown, Michael A. Marsden, Kevin C. Ryan, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
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Water yield and sediment production almost always increase after wildfire has destroyed vegetative cover. The value of water generally is not as much appreciated in the water-rich northern Rocky Mountains as it is elsewhere. Increased water yield…
Author(s): Donald F. Potts, David L. Peterson, Hans R. Zuuring
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In the last decade, the fire management program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, has come under closer scrutiny because of ever-rising program costs. The Forest Service has responded by conducting several studies analyzing the…
Author(s): Patrick J. Flowers, Patricia B. Shinkle, Daria A. Cain, Thomas J. Mills
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Changes in bird populations as a result of a 122 ha forest fire are evaluated. There is little evidence of any drastic effect on numbers of birds, species, or species diversity in the year of the fire or 2 years later.
Author(s): L. Jack Lyon, John M. Marzluff
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Fuel buildup is a natural process that can become unnatural when certain kinds and amounts of fuel extend uncommonly across landscape. Unnatural fuel buildups occur more readily in short-interval types than in long-interval types and may never occur…
Author(s): James K. Brown
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Changes in recreation values after wildfire in the northern Rocky Mountains were determined by estimating the difference in the present net value of recreation activity with and without fire. To estimate the value of recreation activity at burned…
Author(s): Patrick J. Flowers, Henry J. Vaux, Philip D. Gardner, Thomas J. Mills
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Fire plays an important role in Ceanothus velutinus habitat. Its impact varies with season and severity of fire. Knowledge of the interaction between fire severity and evergreen ceanothus habitat can assist managers in estimating the effect of fire…
Author(s): Nonan V. Noste
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This conceptual model of early seral shrub succession following clearcutting and broadcast burning synthesizes ideas from previous research and modeling approaches into a simple diagrammatic model of the critical successional…
Author(s): Penelope Morgan, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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Comprehensive sampling of curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) on 41 sites in five States allowed an assessment of postfire population dynamics, differences in regeneration patterns, and critical events in stand regeneration.…
Author(s): George E. Gruell, Stephen C. Bunting, Leon F. Neuenschwander
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